Volume 132, Issue 23

7 June 2024

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Transition between rotational and translational behavior of a simulated active solid structure. Trajectories are color coded from blue to red by increasing time. Selected for a Focus story in Physics Magazine and for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Model of Active Solids: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-Changing Mechanisms
Claudio Hernández-López, Paul Baconnier, Corentin Coulais, Olivier Dauchot, and Gustavo Düring
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 238303 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Primordial Black Holes with QCD Color Charge

Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David I. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231402 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Some ultralight black holes that formed soon after the big bang might have been exotic objects with a net “color charge” that left potentially observable signatures.

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Model of Active Solids: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-Changing Mechanisms

Claudio Hernández-López, Paul Baconnier, Corentin Coulais, Olivier Dauchot, and Gustavo Düring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 238303 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Collections of interacting self-propelled objects held rigidly together show patterns of organized behavior that can be predicted.

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Measurement of the Pion Form Factor with CMD-3 Detector and Its Implication to the Hadronic Contribution to Muon ( $g - 2$ )

F. V. Ignatov et al. (CMD-3 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231903 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

A new measurement of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{+} π^{-}$ cross section from the CMD-3 experiment points to a larger hadronic contribution to muon $g - 2$ than previous such measurements, which, if confirmed, would ease the tension between theory and experiment for that magnetic moment.

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Observation of Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Double Excitation of Helium in Nanodroplets

B. Bastian, J. D. Asmussen, L. Ben Ltaief, H. B. Pedersen, K. Sishodia, S. De, S. R. Krishnan, C. Medina, N. Pal, R. Richter, N. Sisourat, and M. Mudrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233001 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Interatomic Coulombic decay is experimentally observed in a doubly excited atom despite its extremely short lifetime.

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Blue-Detuned Magneto-optical Trap of CaF Molecules

Samuel J. Li, Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, and Lawrence W. Cheuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233402 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Cooler and denser clouds of CaF molecules are trapped using blue-detuned magneto-optical traps.

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Observation of Momentum Space Josephson Effects in Weakly Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Annesh Mukhopadhyay, Xi-Wang Luo, Colby Schimelfenig, M. K. H. Ome, Sean Mossman, Chuanwei Zhang, and Peter Engels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233403 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

The Josephson effect is observed between two momentum states of a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid.

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Local and Nonlocal Electronic Correlations at the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Maria Chatzieleftheriou, Silke Biermann, and Evgeny A. Stepanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236504 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

D-TRILEX calculations unveil details of the crossover region in Mott transitions between the weakly and strongly correlated regimes for a half-filled 2D Hubbard model.

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Sublattice Structure and Topology in Spontaneously Crystallized Electronic States

Yongxin Zeng, Daniele Guerci, Valentin Crépel, Andrew J. Millis, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236601 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Two-dimensional interacting electrons with nontrivial quantum geometry can spontaneously form honeycomb-lattice crystals that exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect.

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Spontaneous Formation of Altermagnetism from Orbital Ordering

Valentin Leeb, Alexander Mook, Libor Šmejkal, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236701 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

In a system where a standard antiferromagnet coexists with a second, ordered phase, which breaks the sublattice rotational symmetry spontaneously, altermagnetism may emerge as an electronic instability.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Antiferromagnetic Bosonic $t - J$ Models and Their Quantum Simulation in Tweezer Arrays

Lukas Homeier, Timothy J. Harris, Tizian Blatz, Sebastian Geier, Simon Hollerith, Ulrich Schollwöck, Fabian Grusdt, and Annabelle Bohrdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 230401 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Iterative Construction of Conserved Quantities in Dissipative Nearly Integrable Systems

Iris Ulčakar and Zala Lenarčič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 230402 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Nonmesonic Quantum Many-Body Scars in a 1D Lattice Gauge Theory

Zi-Yong Ge, Yu-Ran Zhang, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 230403 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Quantum Speed Limit for States and Observables of Perturbed Open Systems

Benjamin Yadin, Satoya Imai, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 230404 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Efficient Initialization of Fluxonium Qubits based on Auxiliary Energy Levels

Tenghui Wang, Feng Wu, Fei Wang, Xizheng Ma, Gengyan Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Hao Deng, Ran Gao, Ruizi Hu, Lu Ma, Zhijun Song, Tian Xia, Make Ying, Huijuan Zhan, Hui-Hai Zhao, and Chunqing Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 230601 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Deterministic Preparation of Optical Squeezed Cat and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States

Matthew S. Winnel, Joshua J. Guanzon, Deepesh Singh, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 230602 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Loss of Coherence and Change in Emission Physics for Radio Emission from Very Inclined Cosmic-Ray Air Showers

Simon Chiche, Chao Zhang, Felix Schlüter, Kumiko Kotera, Tim Huege, Krijn D. de Vries, Matias Tueros, and Marion Guelfand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231001 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Forecast Cosmological Constraints with the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform and the Lyman- $α$ Forest

Hurum Maksora Tohfa, Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho, Mahdi Qezlou, and Martin Fernandez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231002 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Statistical Anisotropy of Primordial Gravitational Waves from Generalized $δ N$ Formalism

Takahiro Tanaka and Yuko Urakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231003 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Temperature Dependence of the Mechanical Dissipation of Gallium Bonds for Use in Gravitational Wave Detectors

Karen Haughian, Peter G. Murray, Stuart Hill, James Hough, Gregoire Lacaille, Iain W. Martin, Sheila Rowan, Simon Tait, Riccardo Bassiri, Martin M. Fejer, Sudiksha Khadaka, and Ashot Markosyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231401 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Primordial Black Holes with QCD Color Charge

Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David I. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231402 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Some ultralight black holes that formed soon after the big bang might have been exotic objects with a net “color charge” that left potentially observable signatures.

Extreme Resonant Eccentricity Excitation of Stars around Merging Black-Hole Binary

Bin Liu and Dong Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231403 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Particles and Fields

Conformal Graphs as Twisted Partition Functions

Manthos Karydas, Songyuan Li, Anastasios C. Petkou, and Matthieu Vilatte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231601 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Combination of Searches for Resonant Higgs Boson Pair Production Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231801 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Electroweak Corrections to Double Higgs Production at the LHC

Huan-Yu Bi, Li-Hong Huang, Rui-Jun Huang, Yan-Qing Ma, and Huai-Min Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231802 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Determination of the Collins-Soper Kernel from Lattice QCD

Artur Avkhadiev, Phiala E. Shanahan, Michael L. Wagman, and Yong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231901 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

First Study of Antihyperon-Nucleon Scattering $\bar{Λ} p \to \bar{Λ} p$ and Measurement of $Λ p \to Λ p$ Cross Section

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231902 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the Pion Form Factor with CMD-3 Detector and Its Implication to the Hadronic Contribution to Muon ( $g - 2$ )

F. V. Ignatov et al. (CMD-3 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231903 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Two-Loop QED Corrections to the Scattering of Four Massive Leptons

Maximilian Delto, Claude Duhr, Lorenzo Tancredi, and Yu Jiao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231904 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Dilepton Polarization as a Signature of Plasma Anisotropy

Maurice Coquet, Michael Winn, Xiaojian Du, Jean-Yves Ollitrault, and Sören Schlichting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 232301 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Abnormal Bifurcation of the Double Binding Energy Differences and Proton-Neutron Pairing: Nuclei Close to $N = Z$ Line from Ni to Rb

Y. P. Wang, Y. K. Wang, F. F. Xu, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 232501 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Structure Factors for Hot Neutron Matter from Ab Initio Lattice Simulations with High-Fidelity Chiral Interactions

Yuan-Zhuo Ma, Zidu Lin, Bing-Nan Lu, Serdar Elhatisari, Dean Lee, Ning Li, Ulf-G. Meißner, Andrew W. Steiner, and Qian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 232502 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

Impact of Two-Body Currents on Magnetic Dipole Moments of Nuclei

T. Miyagi, X. Cao, R. Seutin, S. Bacca, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, K. Hebeler, J. D. Holt, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 232503 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Magnetic Dipole Transition in ${}^{48}{Ca}$

B. Acharya, B. S. Hu, S. Bacca, G. Hagen, P. Navrátil, and T. Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 232504 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Neutron Star Matter as a Dilute Solution of Protons in Neutrons

J. Keller, K. Hebeler, C. J. Pethick, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 232701 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Double Excitation of Helium in Nanodroplets

B. Bastian, J. D. Asmussen, L. Ben Ltaief, H. B. Pedersen, K. Sishodia, S. De, S. R. Krishnan, C. Medina, N. Pal, R. Richter, N. Sisourat, and M. Mudrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233001 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Interatomic Coulombic decay is experimentally observed in a doubly excited atom despite its extremely short lifetime.

Role of the Binding Energy on Nondipole Effects in Single-Photon Ionization

M. Schmidt, N. Melzer, M. Kircher, G. Kastirke, A. Pier, L. Kaiser, P. Daum, D. Tsitsonis, M. Astaschov, J. Rist, N. Anders, P. Roth, K. Lin, J. Drnec, F. Trinter, M. S. Schöffler, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, N. M. Novikovskiy, Ph. V. Demekhin, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233002 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Measurement of the Static Stark Shift of the $7 s {{}^{2}S}_{1 / 2}$ Level in Atomic Cesium

Jonah A. Quirk, Aidan Jacobsen, Amy Damitz, Carol E. Tanner, and D. S. Elliott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233201 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Bose-Einstein Condensation by Polarization Gradient Laser Cooling

Wenchao Xu, Tamara Šumarac, Emily H. Qiu, Matthew L. Peters, Sergio H. Cantú, Zeyang Li, Adrian Menssen, Mikhail D. Lukin, Simone Colombo, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233401 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Blue-Detuned Magneto-optical Trap of CaF Molecules

Samuel J. Li, Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, and Lawrence W. Cheuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233402 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Cooler and denser clouds of CaF molecules are trapped using blue-detuned magneto-optical traps.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Momentum Space Josephson Effects in Weakly Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Annesh Mukhopadhyay, Xi-Wang Luo, Colby Schimelfenig, M. K. H. Ome, Sean Mossman, Chuanwei Zhang, and Peter Engels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233403 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

The Josephson effect is observed between two momentum states of a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid.

Near-Field Spin Chern Number Quantized by Real-Space Topology of Optical Structures

Tong Fu, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Shiqi Jia, C. T. Chan, and Shubo Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233801 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging and Vibrometry Using a Comb-Calibrated Coherent Sensor

Xin Huang, Ruilin Ye, Wenwen Li, Jian-Wei Zeng, Yi-Chen Lu, Huiqin Hu, Yijun Zhou, Lei Hou, Zheng-Ping Li, Hai-Feng Jiang, Xianghui Xue, Feihu Xu, Xiankang Dou, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233802 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Heavy Particle Clustering in Inertial Subrange of High–Reynolds Number Turbulence

Keigo Matsuda, Katsunori Yoshimatsu, and Kai Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 234001 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Dense Polarized Positrons from Beam-Solid Interaction

Xing-Long Zhu, Wei-Yuan Liu, Tong-Pu Yu, Min Chen, Su-Ming Weng, Wei-Min Wang, and Zheng-Ming Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 235001 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Turbulence Transition in Magnetically Confined Hydrogen and Deuterium Plasmas

T. Kinoshita, K. Tanaka, A. Ishizawa, H. Sakai, M. Nunami, Y. Ohtani, H. Yamada, M. Sato, M. Nakata, T. Tokuzawa, R. Yasuhara, Y. Takemura, I. Yamada, H. Funaba, K. Ida, M. Yoshinuma, T. Tsujimura, R. Seki, K. Ichiguchi, and C. A. Michael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 235101 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Broadening of the Divertor Heat Flux Profile in High Confinement Tokamak Fusion Plasmas with Edge Pedestals Limited by Turbulence in DIII-D

D. R. Ernst, A. Bortolon, C. S. Chang, S. Ku, F. Scotti, H. Q. Wang, Z. Yan, Jie Chen, C. Chrystal, F. Glass, S. Haskey, R. Hood, F. Khabanov, F. Laggner, C. Lasnier, G. R. McKee, T. L. Rhodes, D. Truong, and J. Watkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 235102 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Cascade-Dissipation Balance in Astrophysical Plasmas: Insights from the Terrestrial Magnetosheath

D. Manzini, F. Sahraoui, and F. Califano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 235201 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Geometric Stiffness in Interlayer Exciton Condensates

Nishchhal Verma, Daniele Guerci, and Raquel Queiroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236001 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Normal Fermi Surface in the Nodal Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ Revealed via Thermal Conductivity

Sangyun Lee, Duk Y. Kim, Priscila F. S. Rosa, Eric D. Bauer, Filip Ronning, J. D. Thompson, Shi-Zeng Lin, and Roman Movshovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236002 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

First-Order Rhombohedral-to-Cubic Phase Transition in Photoexcited GeTe

Matteo Furci, Giovanni Marini, and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236101 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Chirality-Induced Phonon-Spin Conversion at an Interface

T. Funato, M. Matsuo, and T. Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236201 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Dephasing-Induced Mobility Edges in Quasicrystals

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236301 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Acoustomagnonic Spin Hall Effect in Honeycomb Antiferromagnets

Ryotaro Sano, Yuya Ominato, and Mamoru Matsuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236302 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

Non-Abelian Braiding of Topological Edge Bands

Yang Long, Zihao Wang, Chen Zhang, Haoran Xue, Y. X. Zhao, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236401 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Tunable Non-Fermi Liquid Phase from Coupling to Two-Level Systems

Noga Bashan, Evyatar Tulipman, Jörg Schmalian, and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236501 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Thermodynamic Response and Neutral Excitations in Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States Emerging from Correlated Flat Bands

Hongyu Lu, Bin-Bin Chen, Han-Qing Wu, Kai Sun, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236502 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

Microscopic Model for Fractional Quantum Hall Nematics

Songyang Pu, Ajit C. Balram, Joseph Taylor, Eduardo Fradkin, and Zlatko Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236503 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local and Nonlocal Electronic Correlations at the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Maria Chatzieleftheriou, Silke Biermann, and Evgeny A. Stepanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236504 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

D-TRILEX calculations unveil details of the crossover region in Mott transitions between the weakly and strongly correlated regimes for a half-filled 2D Hubbard model.

Map of Crystal-Field Effects in Correlated Layered $t_{2 g}^{n}$ Perovskites

Neda Samani, Guoren Zhang, and Eva Pavarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236505 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sublattice Structure and Topology in Spontaneously Crystallized Electronic States

Yongxin Zeng, Daniele Guerci, Valentin Crépel, Andrew J. Millis, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236601 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Two-dimensional interacting electrons with nontrivial quantum geometry can spontaneously form honeycomb-lattice crystals that exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION